Current Group Members

Dr. Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández

Carlos Crespo

B.S., University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Campus, Puerto Rico, 1995Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Campus, Puerto Rico, 2002NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University (2002-05)Research Associate of Chemistry, The Ohio State University (2005-06)

Regina DiScipio joined the group in November 2013 and her research focuses on the photo-kinetics of novel photovoltaic bulk-herojunction materials.

Prior to joining Case Western Graduate program, Regina received a B.S. for physics and chemistry at Baldwin-Wallace University. For her undergraduate research she received awards for analytical chemistry from the B-W department and also the American Chemical Society.

Honorary Members

Maricruz married Dr. Crespo in August 2006. As of May 2014, she is a Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow at Case Medical Center Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Christian Reichardt

Olexandr Isayev

Olexandr (Alex) Isayev: Postdoctoral Scholar (04/2009-02/2012). Alex performed theoretical studies of structure-function analysis of E. cloacae nitroreductase as part of a collaborative program with the US Army ERDC, Environmental Laboratory, VIcksburg, MS.

Qing Wang

Qing studied the steady-state and time-resolved photochemistry of 9-nitroanthracene as a graduate student. She graduated with a master degree in Chemistry in May 2011.

Cao Guo

Cao investigated the excited-state dynamics of DNA analogues as a graduate student. He graduated with a master degree in Chemistry in May 2011.

Chengwei Wen

Chenwei investigated the excited-state dynamics of DNA analogues as a graduate student. He graduated with a master degree in Chemistry in May 2011.

R. Aaron Vogt

Aaron investigated the excited-state dynamics and photochemistry of nitro-naphthalene derivatives and of (organophosphine)gold(I) polycyclic aromatic compounds as a graduate student. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in December 2012.

Huijuan Huang

Huijuan investigated the excited-state dynamics of Folic Acid and 6-carboxypterin as a graduate student. She graduated with a master degree in Chemistry in July 2013.

Hannah Jenkins

María Morel

María visited our group for three weeks in 2009. She was trained in the use, data collection, and data analysis of femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. María performed transient absorption experiments in nitro-polycyclic aromatic compounds as part of her Ph.D. work and of an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Arce from University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Campus.

Joyann Marks

Joyann visited the our group during the summer of 2009 to perform research. She was undergraduate student at the Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. Joyann investigated the steady-state photochemistry of Salbutamol, which resulted in her becoming a co-author of a peer-reviewed publication in 2011. She also presented her summer research work in several conferences. Joyann joined the Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech University in 2010.

Lara Martínez-Fernández

Lara joined the group on February 4, 2013 as a visiting graduate student from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She stayed with the group for two months.

Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez

Luis joined the group on summer 2014 as a visiting summer-research undergraduate student from the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao. He was a fellow of the Case-Fisk Partnership/ACES 2014 Summer Undergraduate Research Program. He stayed with the group for two months.